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- I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
- I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but…
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- I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. — Peter Ackroyd
- Biography should be written by an acute enemy. — Arthur Balfour
- I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I… — David Bowie
- Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. — Anita Brookner
- Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends. — A. S. Byatt
- When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because… — Jane Campion
- No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle
- I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a… — Helena Bonham Carter